Author's Note

OK every pony this is kind of gonna be a wacky chapter as it takes place in discord's head. I'm sorry for that, it is very hard to write a character that's insane

Day four... She isn't coming

A statue of stone, A bleeding heart

A poisoned throne, A lonely start

4 Days after Canterlot Mega-spell

Discord grimaced as he released the buildup of magic that he was holding, then watched as a ball of red flew into the air, past the shield spell, and over the pink mist that he and the two fillies were trapped in. It would most likely be the last time he cast the flare spell, at first he was using it to try and get Celestia’s attention, to say that somepony was still alive, but at this point it was something that was drawing in the wrong attention. He looked out at the writhing jerking forms of other melted ponies that were now beating on the shield along with the first mare.

we should just leave them to die, a voice in Discord's mind said, in a way that he started to doubt that it was truly his own. Celestia should have come by now, these children are not our problem! We should be out there wrecking havoc while we have the chance Discord did his best to push the voice away from the front of his head, he had wasted this much time and power already, he was going to see this to the end. Celestia would be here soon, she always came. Not this time the voice pushed back with doubt, not this time.

Discord mentality shook his head clearing away the darker thoughts that were clouding his mind, for once in his life he needed to focus on something other than himself. He owed the poor zombified mare still beating herself to death on his shield that much, Speaking of which, Discord turned his attention to said shield. He had to reduce its size over the past four days, reducing the already small area the children had to an even smaller one, not that they moved from the base of his statue.

He had been using too much magic making sure they had at least had enough water, food they could live without for a little, he couldn't waste his limited magic on such things. Yet no matter how he tried to what ration the magic he had, maintaining a shield spell that was strong enough to repel the mist and the zombie ponies beating on it was no easy task. It was made even worse when he had to make it a dampen sound as well. One of those things showed up with a radio melted into its leg, and the only song that played was one of death, he feared the strain it would put on him.

Discord paused a moment looking to his reserves, for being trapped in stone, his magic pool was quite large, if Celestia came soon, he would still have enough power to free himself. If she didn't, well he dared not think too much down that path, he would hold out until she arrived, free us you fool, while you can Discord tried to ignore the voice but thought on it, with all the power he held now he could free himself. He would have to contrate it in one place to break free of the stone, and that would mean dropping his shield. Killing the two fillies he has been trying to protect.

Luna and Celestia aren't coming Discord, free yourself while you have the chance, forget the ponies, they don't matter Discord fought back against the thought, looking down at the sleeping fillies cuddled together under his statue, why was he protecting them, did it even matter. That's it, they’re just ponies, they don't matter. what matters is getting free, what matters is our throne, and our new chaos capital waiting right in front of us.

Discord seemed to think about it, why he was wasting power on the little weak ponies below him, his vision went a little green as he focused on them. H could feel the shield spell slip slightly, only to be stopped a split second. The youngest filly was struggling in her sleep. Her legs flailed as tears falling through closed eyes, it was her older sister that moved to comfort her cuddling closer holding the smaller pony. The action made him stopped instantly, pouring magic back into the shield, he thought agian on why he would do this, a memory came flooding back.

He looked up the green disappearing as the memory played out across the grove, his keeper was cleaning his statue as the two little fillies ran about the green grass playing a game they only knew the rules to. Their mother smiling as she washed a large bird dropping off Discords head. He had been ignoring what most of had been said to him over the day, until one of the fillies latched on to his leg his small squeaky voice barley reaching his ears. "You can't get me now, Mr. Discord will protect me" she looked up at him pretending to be scared of her sister who from the way she was acting was a dragon, that was until the young lost her grip and fell from his statue scraping herself up on the way.

Discord should have found such a thing a little amusing, but instead he found himself, worried, of course being stone ment he couldn't show it, not that he would want to of course. Their mother on the other hand had drooped almost Immediately to the crying child's side to comfort her. The same mare that had once loved her children, comforted them when they fell, was now trying to kill them as she beat her broken body against his sheild.

If Discord did nothing, if he didnt save them, then who would have. If he had done nothing, they would have died, HE would have killed them, he couldn't kill, he had never truly killed. What was the point in such a thing, you couldn't have fun with dead ponies.

He searched his mind, those dark murderous thoughts were not his own, something was in his head. He dug around in the empty sock drawers and inside out safes littered in his head, looking, searching for whatever darker force had hid itself way in the back of his mind. He recoiled when he found it, a piece of that damned cloud, it must have snuck in while his magic pool opened to cast the shield spell.

The invasive magic was small, but for its size it was staggeringly dark, it writhed and shifted with a hungry hatred of the living. Discord snapped his fingers, a cage forming around the pink mass, it hissed as he did so, not even disguising its voice spoke dark thoughts and magic seeping from it words. Discord almost wished it had kept his voice, for now the cloud spoke in a million different voices, some of the voices speaking to early or to late, others not even saying words just screaming in the background. An eternity of pain ringing out from the very core of their souls I̸t̷ ̶s̵e̸e̵m̸s̷ ̴t̶h̸a̶t̷ ̵y̶o̴u̸ ̴h̶a̸v̵e̴ ̴f̷o̷u̶n̸d̷ ̷u̷s̸,̵ ̶D̸i̸s̷c̴o̷r̸d̴.

Discord backpedaled at the sounds not ready at what had come out, his ears ringing in surprise, but quickly as it was lost, he regained his composure. He studied the dark magic closer, poking at it with a stick once or twice to see what it would do. The cloud snapped at this doing, it looked like it was on the defense, which was probably for the best in its situation. It's voice rang out again, somehow managing a bargaining tone g̷i̸v̸e̵ ̸u̵s̸ ̶t̸h̸e̴ ̷p̸o̵n̶i̵e̴s̵ ̴a̸n̷d̵ ̷I̷ ̷w̴i̵l̷l̴ ̷s̵e̷t̴ ̸y̸o̸u̸ ̵f̵r̷e̶e̸,G̵i̷v̶e̸ ̴u̸s̸ ̴t̵h̴e̷ ̴p̴o̴n̵i̶e̷s̸,̷ ̴a̴n̶d̵ ̷w̵e̸ ̶w̴i̴l̷l̵ ̵g̴i̷v̴e̶ ̵y̸o̴u̴ ̷C̷a̴n̷t̸e̵r̸l̵o̸t̷.

Discord stroked his beard as he walked in circles, thinking as he did. This was dark magic, very dark magic, magic that not even he liked to openly touch, he would have to be careful. He stared at the cloud looking at it cautiously before he stopped suddenly and snapped his fingers. He was back in his statue form, the fillies were still sleeping and the shield was holding, he had time for some fun, he had time for a game of revenge. He laughed as he reentered his head.

The crazy reality of Discords mind changed, The cloud and Discord were instantly placed into a
large enpty courtroom, magical ethereal chains appearing around the pink cloud. It floated confused and careful its group of voices sounding concernedW̷h̶a̵t̴ ̶i̸s̷ ̸t̷h̴e̴ ̷m̵e̶a̵n̴i̴n̵g̴ ̵o̵f̶ ̵t̸h̶i̷s̶,̶ ̷D̵i̶s̷c̸o̷r̴d̵ Discord for his part said nothing, letting the cloud only guess at was going on. Discord waited a moment before he pulling off his iconic flash of light and appearing at the judges stand, he had on a powdered curled wig with a black and white checkered robes. No matter the situation, Discord would always be Discord.

He slammed a gavel into the wooden stand, a duck squeak sound through the room. A multitude of Discords appeared in the stands and jury seats, some in dresses other in suits, one of them in a old potato sack attire. He stood as soon as he appeared talking in an angered tone “off with it cloud head”, before the judge Discord could even say anything the jury of Discords and the stands Discords started to mumble, ether shaking their heads in approval or disagreement.

The gavel banged a few more times as the judge tried to get ahold of his fake court, each time it landed it made a random animal noise. It took only a moment for his clones to calm themselves, and for Discord to hear himself speak, he began. He turned to a smaller version of himself that using a rubber chicken to write was happening on a stone tablet, upside down, and backwards.

“What are the crimes, of the accused? '' he asked, as he unfiled the papers in front of him, mixing them up in a jumbled mess, even taking a bite out of one as the did. The smaller Discord stood throwing the tablet behind him, it shattered like glass as it hit a wall “ the accused faces the charges of, mind trespassing, attempted mind control, having a stupid voice, and being an evil Cliché" the smaller Discord then seemed to get a little more serious, his eyes glowing with a the fire of hatred ”along with the attempted murder of what is ours" when he finished speaking and got the nod from judge Discord, the little Discord didn't so much as sit down as he did reverse time, repeating his action backwards so that as he sat
the stone tablet reformed in his claws.

The judge Discord nodded his head as he only half listened to all but the last part, looking to the cloud after he had finished “what what to have to say in defense, I̵ ̸a̴m̷ ̴g̵o̸i̶n̶g̷ ̵t̸o̴ K̵͇̦̍͛I̴̞̞̐L̴̬͐͑̕L̵͙̋̂͘ ̶t̸h̴o̵s̷e̸ ̷f̴i̷l̴l̴i̸e̶s̵ ̵d̴i̶s̷c̵o̸r̸d̵ ̵y̶o̶u̷ ̴c̵a̴n̷t̵ ̶s̶t̴o̴p̵ ̶m̴e̶,̶ ̴y̷o̶u̴ ̸a̶r̸e̸ ̶t̵o̷ ̸w̵e̴a̶k̸. The cloud started laughing at the hundreds of voices it had joined in at random times. Ï̶̫ ̷̲͝h̴̥̔ȃ̴̙ṿ̸͛ë̷̟́ ̷͓͝a̷̭̋l̷͠ͅṛ̸̋ę̷͌à̵̤d̸͓̚ỷ̴͓ ̸͕͌k̶̢̆i̸̬͑l̸͓̄l̴̡̔ ̸̼̊Ç̸̊ẹ̷͠ḻ̸͘e̶̖͝s̵͎͂ẗ̸̗ĭ̵̩a̴̻͘ ̶̺̋a̵̰̔ǹ̷̺d̴̹͌ ̵̦͆L̴̦̈́ü̴͎ṅ̵͚ǎ̸̩,̶̱̈ ̶̼͆t̶͔́h̶̗͑e̵͈͒y̴̪͗ ̸̭͆c̶̥̅a̵̘͒n̴̙͋t̵̞̽ ̶̿ͅs̶͎̀a̴̙̚v̵̬͝e̸̗͠ ̸̢͛y̶͖͝ơ̶̭ȕ̷̞,̷̥̽ ̵̛̗t̷̳̐h̶̬̒ȩ̸̿ŷ̴͈ ̶͈̉â̸͓ŗ̵̀e̴̛̥ṇ̵̚'̵̻̎t̵̢̕ ̷̺̕c̵̙̎o̷̻͝m̸̲͝i̶̝̒n̴͕̈́g̶̨͆ . Discord yawned as the rant went on taking a bite from the case file on his desk “so guilty then, and shall we had ranting and lies to the list of the danmed” he banged the gavel down this time a gong sounded.

The room changed, the cloud shifting sizes as it sat in a cage on a kitchen counter, A large discord standing over it. A camera floated in front of them as Discord put on a chefs apron “hello and welcome to binging with Discord” he shook a cookbook as he spoke “on today's episode will be make evil pink cloud cake” he picked up the cage showing it off to the camera “first you will need an evil pink cloud, I know they are rare” discord spoke spinning the cage as he did so “but just check you local Canterlot, I am sure they have some in stock” Discord was about to place the cage down when his mind shook, the real world was calling, he had run out of time for games.

The cloud laughed as the kitchen faded from view only leaving discord holding its cage s̵͛ͅọ̴̽o̶͙͂n̸̺͌ ̸̥̀I̵͓̓ ̵͔̌w̴̗͑ȉ̷̲ļ̶̊l̸̺̀ ̴̙́g̴͈̿ě̷̹t̴̼̔ ̸͈͋i̴͇̽n̸͇͝ ̵̣̓D̴͕̆i̷̛̱s̷͎͝c̵̫̿o̵͔̓r̵̤̈d̷̠͝,̵̬͗ ̶̠̔Y̶̠̐Ó̴͜Ū̵̙ ̵̪͛C̶͉͊Ȧ̵̰N̸͈̂T̶̝͛ ̴͖̏S̸̟̕A̴͉̚V̸͇͐E̴̪̐ ̸͓̋Ţ̵̍H̶̬̕E̵̺̋M̸͕̆,̷̭̿ ̷̲̉C̶̭̈́E̴̡͂L̵͖̍Ě̸̝S̸̭͛T̵͇͝I̴͇͐A̶̖̓ ̵͎̋Í̸̫S̶̪̕Ṅ̷̫T̷̈ͅ ̶̟̽C̷̹͒Ö̶͈́M̴͈̈́Ị̶̎Ñ̷̢Ḡ̷͕,̸̭̐ ̶͈̒I̷͓̎ ̸̧̓H̶͔̒A̴̘̐V̷̙̇Ê̶̳ ̴͔͐Å̵͈L̸͓̎R̵̙̅E̷̟̊A̵̼̾D̷͕́Y̷͚͗ ̶̣̐Ẅ̴̘Ô̶͚N̸͙̄ . Discord said nothing as he snapped, a caldron appearing before them, he dropped the cloud in then snapped again a can appearing in his hand. It was colorful and it shined with a magic touch. “harmonized pony rainbows” Discord said tearing open the can and pouring it on the evil pink mist “for all those hard to remove evils (patent pending)”

The cloud screamed speaking in tongues that most would never know, Discord paid it no mind as he watched it contort and stretch, getting ripped apart as the magic did its work. That was until the cloud jerked to the right hard enough to tip the caldorn, freeing itself from the rainbows cleansing effect, the cloud started to fade as it left Discords mind screaming as it didI̴ ̴A̴M̴ ̶G̴O̷I̷N̸G̴ ̵T̷O̷ ̶B̵A̸C̵K̶ ̶F̶O̸R̷ ̶T̵H̸E̵M̴ ̷D̵I̸S̵C̸O̴R̸D̶,̵ ̶A̶N̸D̴ ̴W̵H̵E̶N̸ ̶I̸ ̷D̶O̷,̴ ̵Y̶O̶U̸ ̵W̸I̸L̶L̷ ̴W̶A̷T̴C̷H̴ ̷A̴S̴ ̵I̷ ̶T̶E̴A̷R̶ ̸T̸H̵E̶M̵ ̴A̸P̴A̸R̴T̵ ̶I̷N̷ ̶F̶R̴O̴N̶T̷ ̶O̴F̷ ̷Y̵O̸U̴

It was with another shake of his mind, that Discord pulled himself from his head to see that was the matter, it was just as he thought, the shield was cracking if only slightly. He pulled on his magic, repairing and shrinking the shield further. The two fillies were still asleep, not knowing what was really happening, just knowing that for now they were safe. Discord drew on his pride, he would keep them alive, and if. No WHEN Celestia came, they were going to have a very long discussion on what evil she had hidden and locked away that discord needed to know about, because at this point, it was making his life stressful, and Discord doesn't do stressful.

Celestia would come, she always did, but with the clouds last message Discord did feel a little doubt C̶̭̈́E̴̡͂L̵͖̍Ě̸̝S̸̭͛T̵͇͝I̴͇͐A̶̖̓ ̵͎̋Í̸̫S̶̪̕Ṅ̷̫T̷̈ͅ ̶̟̽C̷̹͒Ö̶͈́M̴͈̈́Ị̶̎Ñ̷̢Ḡ̷͕,̸̭̐ ̶͈̒I̷͓̎ ̸̧̓H̶͔̒A̴̘̐V̷̙̇Ê̶̳ ̴͔͐Å̵͈L̸͓̎R̵̙̅E̷̟̊A̵̼̾D̷͕́Y̷͚͗ ̶̣̐Ẅ̴̘Ô̶͚N̸͙̄